Under the udala trees

Chinelo Okparanta

Under the udala trees - London Granta 2015 - 328 p. : iLl. ; 22 cm

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

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Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970 -- Fiction;

813.6 OKP